✣Highlights from the week online
The conversion of an Episcopalian minister At workingthebeads.com, Jonathan Mitchican announced that he will be joining the Catholic Church. “In many ways I feel very sad,” he admitted. He has served as an Anglo-Catholic priest, has been married and has baptised his children in an Episcopal church.
Mitchican had tried to resist, but “the more I struggled against this calling, the more calmly and consistently the Lord repeated it.”
There is a difference, he wrote, “between reading St Thomas Aquinas and being in communion with St Thomas Aquinas. There is a difference between knowing that a common baptism unites us as brothers and sisters in Christ and actually seeing the footprint of that in history. There is a difference between loving the tradition of the Church, even trying very hard to apply that tradition to new circumstances, and recognising my place as just one sailor on a sea of tradition that I cannot control but that will always carry me home.”
